Martin David Kelly

Hi David, great to meet you too and thanks for your kind words and the excellent question. I'll send you the 'paper'.

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Alma Diamond: Practices, Obligations, and Constitutions It is a pleasure to have Alma Diamond as our next interviewee. Alma obtained her LLM and JSD from NYU School of Law, where her dissertation was supervised by Jeremy Waldron. She has taught at the U…

A new Legal-Phi interview is out! We spoke with Alma Diamond
about how practices shape obligations, constitutional meaning, and much more. Check it out 👇https://legalphi.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/alma-diamond-practices-obligations-and-constitutions/

Goodbye old office

Awesome! Thanks

Why?

The text pictured reads: Parliament is said to be omnipotent, and that it is capable of dealing' with curious matters will be seen from the subjoined specimen of an eighteenth century preamble: "And whereas it has been customary for the Rector of the Parish of Eckington aforesaid for the time being, to keep and maintain a Boar for the Use and Benefit of the said Parish And whereas an Organ hath lately been erected in the Parish Church of Eckington aforesaid, and no Annual Salary being provided for the Organist thereof, and the said Parishioners being desirous to abolish and set aside the aforesaid Custom, and to appropriate an Annual Money Payment to the Organist for the time being in lieu thereof" (35 Geo. 3, c. 100, private). The marginal note is: ''Rector exempted from keeping a Boar, on payment of an Annual Sum to the Organist".

Wondrous ambiguity... @scottwortley.bsky.social

I had a very similar experience to Mark and I am also appalled by this change (as well as by the drastic cuts to PhD funding by universities). I would not be an academic now were it not for the AHRC funding my doctorate. Academia should not return to being the preserve of those with wealth parents.

Congrats Guy 👏🏻

That doesn’t mean that no-one has sought advice about it.

Exactly that.

If it’s legal advice, I’d imagine that it means allowed by the law.

Safe to go in, or not? @scottwortley.bsky.social

#conferencekids

If you would like to come to our conference "25 years of the HRA" on 18 September you can get tickets here - www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...

Is the overlap zone not ‘necessary but stupid’?

Thanks Eric 🙏🏻 I’ll still be around and about.

Looking forward to this!

Conference uploading....

Tory MSP hands SNP victory in vote - after hitting Yes button instead of No TORY MSP Brian Whittle handed the SNP victory in a knife-edge Holyrood vote — after hitting the Yes button instead of No. The former Team GB relay runner’s blunder saved Nats from  defeat  as MSPs …

For fans of legislative intention. Max Radin nods

Thanks Mathieu, you’re too kind

I'm very happy to share that, after 12.5 years teaching at the University of Edinburgh, this September I'll be moving to the Public Law team at the University of Glasgow. I'm honoured to be joining such a great team of scholars in this amazing Law School, and I'm looking forward to this new chapter.

Looking forward to the 2025 Legal Theory Festival at the University of Edinburgh @legaltheoryed.bsky.social. I’ll be presenting a paper entitled ‘Interpretation as Collaboration’. Thanks to @philosophy-law.bsky.social for the invite!

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On 2 June, the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk will collaborate with scholars incl our members @ucllaws.bsky.social, @durham-university.bsky.social & @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social on a workshop on the role of politicians & parliamentary personnel in sustaining the unwritten dimension of constitutionalism

Looks like a fabulous set of events for this year's Legal Theory Festival. The programme is available here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/.... Please repost and share widely!

Congratulations Lewis. Looking forward to seeing you at our workshop on s 3 next month.

Publication day! 'The Principle of Legality: A Moral Theory' is now out in the world. Perfect for your undergraduate public law reading lists and children's birthday presents.

Feeling immensely grateful to friends and colleagues for the years of support during the writing of this. <3

Congratulations James!